Professor Anderson has discovered a primitive tribe in the Amazon rainforest and has studied their language. She has found that this tribe has only seven emotions. She reasons that they should only perceive these seven emotions. She is basing her hypothesis on:
A. the psychometric approach
B. Chomsky's theory of language acquisition
C. the social learning approach
D. the theory of linguistic relativity
Answer: D
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